Friday, December 30, 2016

Can you
give us a brief overview of your latest book? Is it part of a series?

My latest book is Fail to the
Chief, a parody of presidential proportions. In it, I imagined
the presidential election as a reality show called American President—every
week, candidates have to perform challenges selected by the audience, then the
person with the least votes is eliminated.

I wanted the challenges to be things that I'd always wanted
to see in a real election. The first challenge is working a real job—all the
candidates have to go out and work at a real job, with no aides around to make
sure they say the right thing and look good. Each candidate gets a different
job, voted on by the audience, based on his or her previous experience or
campaign promises. So there's a scene where this governor who opposes raising
the minimum wage has to go work at a fast food restaurant, where obviously his
coworkers aren't his biggest fans. As he's trying to work the cash register, he
also has to deal with customers who have their own issues with him.

Other challenges include a debate where all the contestants are hooked up to
polygraph machines—something I've always wanted to see, even though it'll never
happen in real life—and a sort of reverse drinking game where you take a shot
every time someone says something trite and overused—only the candidates are
the ones who have to take a drink. I always wanted to see a debate where all
the candidates are drunk.

Do you
have a favorite character?

ProbablyBryan
Seafoam, the host of American President. The story is told from his
point of view, so we get to see all the candidates and their antics through his
eyes. Bryan has his own subplots—he wants to be a serious reporter, but his
producer pressures him not to be too hard on the candidates, to leave that up
to the audience on social media. Later in the story, he uncovers a cheating
scandal and has to make some difficult decisions. There are some surprise
twists at the end.

Did you
try the traditional route to publishing, i.e. querying agents/publishers?

Years ago, with my probably-needed-some-work first effort at
a novel, yes, I tried querying agents. What a waste of time that was. In
retrospect, I wish I hadn't wasted so much time on that. It really was a big time
suck. I spent hours reading about how to write an effective query letter,
rewriting mine a million times, and it was just an ROI of ZERO.

When I finally gave up on that, it was around the time that self-publishing on
Amazon was getting big. So I became very interested in self-publishing. I had
heard that a few people were actually making good money with their
self-published novels, although a lot of people don't. I decided I was going to
finish my next book and put it on Amazon myself, and the hell with agents and
publishers. That was in 2012, I think, around the time the Kindle Fire came
out.

So that year I started a Nanowrimo novel with the idea of
finishing it in November, and I did—November of 2014. (Hey, they never said it
had to be November of the same year, right?) By then the self-publishing field
had expanded exponentially. I think the Kindle Fire's success helped make
ebooks more popular, but besides that, everybody and their dog decided to
publish a book on Amazon. Unfortunately, that made the market really cluttered,
which is still true today. There are some great self-published novels out
there, but there's also a lot of stuff that really needs an editor. It's very
hard to get noticed with so many books of varying quality out there.

How long before
you got your offer of representation/your first contract? Was it for your first
novel?

So after I finally finished that Nano novel in 2014, I was
still really into the idea of publishing myself on Amazon. But, like I said,
there are a lot of challenges to overcome. You can either figure out how to
design your own cover, or pay someone to do it. I didn't have any money, so I
figured I'd just design my own or use one of those free covers Amazon offers to
authors. (That was a seriously bad idea, and I don't recommend anyone do that.)
As far as editing, I figured I'd do it myself and hope I didn't miss anything.

But even if you do a great job of designing a cover and editing your book, it's
still difficult to get anyone to even see it, especially if you don't have a
marketing budget. So I ended up talking to a small press, Oghma Creative Media.

Initially, I found it hard to let go of the idea of self-publishing. I'd gotten
really attracted to the idea of doing everything myself and having control of
everything. I probably found self-publishing so appealing because I'm a little
bit of a control freak. However, after thinking about it, I realized it would
be nice to have help with things like editing and cover design, so I agreed to
let them publish that novel.

What
factors influenced your decision to go with a particular agent or publisher?

I liked that Oghma wanted its authors to be involved in the
whole creative process, from editing to cover design.

If you
used a graphic designer/publisher’s designer, how involved were you during the
creative process for your cover?

I was very involved with the cover, which was designed by
Richard Howk at Oghma Creative Media. I told him it was very important to have
some of the candidates on the cover, and I also wanted the host, Bryan Seafoam,
sort of sitting off to the side doing the facepalm. I really like how it turned
out. It really shows what the book is about.

Do you
belong to a critique group? Have they helped improve your writing?

Yes, I belong to a couple critique groups, and they have
helped me improve my writing a lot. For a long time I thought, I'll wait until
I improve my writing, I don't want to read them something awful. Eventually it
occurred to me my writing might improve a lot faster if I got some feedback on
it, so I went, and I wish I had done it sooner.

What is
your writing process? Do you listen to music or do you like silence?

Usually I listen to music, but I try to write whenever I
have time. Thanksgiving Day, I was in the longest line EVER at JCPenney waiting
to buy something in their sale, and I was so bored. So then I remembered I was
trying to do Nanowrimo again, so I got out my phone and wrote a whole page
while I was standing there in that never-moving line. No, I didn't win Nano
this year, but I did get some writing done.

Do you
outline your story or just go where your muse takes you?

I'm a pantser. I can't outline. If I had to know everything
that was going to happen in my story before I started, I would never start. I
just figure it out as I go along.
I had no idea where I was going with Fail to the
Chief. In fact, when I started writing it I really only planned
on it being a short story. That's actually a good example of one way my
critique group helped me—I read them the first five pages of what would become Fail to the
Chief, which I hadn't yet figured out how to finish. I was
hoping someone would suggest something funny that would help me think of an
ending.

Then someone said, “This should be a book,” and I was like, “I don't think
there's enough here for a book.” But everyone else said, “It should be a book,”
and it's rare for everyone in the group to agree about any one thing. Usually
you get a wide variety of opinions, and that's good, but this time it was
unanimous.

So I said I'd think about it, and I did, and the funniest thing happened. Once
I stopped thinking of it as a short story, I realized I had more than enough
material for a book. In fact, I ultimately figured out why I couldn't finish it—there
was too much story for a twenty-page resolution. I would have no problem
finishing it as a book.

Of course, it probably would have taken me months, and I'd probably still be
writing it if I hadn't lost my job the next month. So there I was, a two-time
college graduate who had finally gotten a job that paid like I was a college
graduate and not a kindergarten dropout, after years of being a
college-educated cashier, and six months later I got fired. (My former employer
claimed they were going in another direction, and technically that was true.
That direction was replacing me with a couple of interns at a much lower rate
of pay.) Then I got denied unemployment because my former employer lied and
said I was fired for cause after telling me I did nothing wrong. I was angry,
depressed, and humiliated. I had spent so much time, working two jobs to pay
for college, just so one day I could make more than minimum wage, only to spend
years working in retail for little more, then the minute I got a decent job, it
got taken away.

So I said, “Screw it, I'm going to finish my book.” And the next scene I wrote
was the one with the governor in the fast food restaurant. In it, he meets a
manager at the restaurant who's working three jobs just to make ends meet,
despite having gone into debt to earn a college degree. The governor declares
that he's obviously solved the state's unemployment problem if someone can find
not one but THREE jobs, showing just how out of touch he is. It's a funny
scene, and it got a lot of laughs at my critique group, but it also has a
serious message: A lot of people struggle to pay for college, only to end up
working for minimum wage. The fast food manager's explanation of his problems
was a good way for me to work out my anger and frustration with my own life,
while hopefully making people think. That's one of the reasons I write: To make
people think.

Do you
find it difficult to juggle your time between marketing your current book and
writing your next book?

It is difficult, because I do spend a lot of time looking
for opportunities to do interviews, write guest posts, and appear on podcasts.
But it's also important, because again, it's very difficult to get your book
noticed when there are so many books out there.

What’s next
for you?

I'm working on my next book, The Trust Pill, which
will probably be published in 2018. It's a comical look at the pharmaceutical
industry in the not-so-distant future. If you've ever seen a commercial for
some sort of medication, and the list of side effects was so long and so much
worse than whatever it was for, you have some idea of what the book is about.

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Book Blurb

After years of
emceeing insipid singing competitions, TV personality Bryan Seafoam can't wait
to host "American President," the world's first reality show to elect
a president of the United States. Finally, an opportunity to be a real
journalist, digging up dirt and playing hardball with the top ten candidates.

But it doesn't take
long for the contestants to start slinging mud at Bryan - literally, when
billionaire candidate Ronald Chump is challenged to dig his proposed moat along
the Mexican-American border himself. Forced to work in a fast food restaurant,
an anti-minimum-wage-hike candidate learns his coworkers are struggling to
survive with multiple jobs and claims to have solved the unemployment problem
in his state-leaving Bryan to duck ketchup bombs from customers. To make
matters worse, Bryan's producer pressures him to be nicer to the candidates,
and his former crush, now an experienced political correspondent, shows up-and
shows him up at every turn.

When a cheating
scandal rocks the show, Bryan begins to suspect it's just the tip of a very
underhanded iceberg. Will trying to expose a plot to wreck the most hysterical,
er, historic election in history cost Bryan his career-and his personal life?

W. T. Fallon believes if
you can’t say something nice, you should say something funny and totally true.
She has few marketable skills, but is highly talented in the areas of sarcasm,
satire, and snark. For the past several years, she has written for the local
Gridiron Show, and this year she started a blog called Sharable Sarcasm. The 2016
election provided so many opportunities for humor that she decided to write her
first novel, a political satire called Fail to the Chief, which will be
released in September. She was recently published on The Satirist,
and has been writing for Humor Outcasts since September of 2016.

USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR DONNA FASANO is a three-time winner
of the HOLT Medallion, a CataRomance Reviewers Choice Award winner for
Best Single Title, a Desert Rose Golden Quill Award finalist, a Golden
Heart finalist, and a two-time winner of Best Romance of the Year given
by BigAl's Books & Pals Review Blog. Her books have sold 4 million
copies worldwide and have been published in two dozen languages. Her
novels have made the Kindle Top 100 Paid List numerous times, climbing
as high as #1.

Donna has a website, and can be found on Facebook,
Twitter, and other social media sites. Contact information can be found
inside Donna Fasano's books. She loves to interact with readers.

Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Seventeen-year-old Hannah
Richardson curtsied to her partner before leaving the dance floor. Her cheeks
were flushed, and the ringlets of her rich brown hair that had escaped their
pins lay wet against her neck. She made her way to the double doors leading to
the balcony overlooking her aunt’s gardens and stepped through. She looked
around to make sure there were no gentlemen in the vicinity so as to not
compromise her reputation. She was hot from dancing and a few moments outside
on the balcony couldn’t possibly cause a scandal. She inhaled deeply of the
cool night air. Goosebumps rose on her arms from the chill, but she ignored
them. She was happy to be out of the stuffy ballroom, if only for a moment or
two. Aunt Mary’s gardens were one of her favorite places to visit, and she felt
at home and comfortable here. It was her own private sanctuary, and she
relished the beauty and peacefulness of the place. A few goose bumps were well
worth it for such a sanctuary.

“It’s so lovely here,” she murmured as she stepped off the
balcony and wandered down the path while breathing in the exotic smells of the
gardens. Her aunt had hired the best and most experienced gardener in London,
and no other gardens rivaled the Tisbury Gardens, especially with its many
varieties of roses. Hannah bent over one of the more fragrant roses and
breathed deeply. When she straightened, she thought she heard voices scattered
on the breeze. She looked farther down the path, but the shadows were deep and
no one was in sight.

“Who’s there?” she whispered.
Perhaps it was a couple seeking privacy. She knew she shouldn’t go snooping,
but the thought of seeing who was meeting in secret spurred her down the path.

She looked left and right, but
there was no one around. She sighed. There would be no spying on illicit love
tonight and it was time to return to the ballroom before her own reputation was
compromised. Before she could take another step, an arm circled around her
waist and a hand tightened around her throat as she was tugged back against a
broad, hard chest.

“Oh!” she cried out in surprise as
her heart hammered in fright. A cold, quiet terror unfurled in her chest. She
had never been handled so roughly in her life. Who would dare do such a thing,
and especially in her aunt’s gardens? What was the meaning of this?

“You must be careful not to walk
alone at night, Miss Richardson,” a deep, husky voice whispered in her ear.

“What do you want? Unhand me at
once,” she demanded, her rising indignation overtaking her original scare.

“To pass along a warning, that is
all. Heed my advice,” he said, his hot breath on her neck sending unexpected
shivers down her spine.

“How dare you put your hands upon
my person?” she asked, trying to dislodge the arm around her waist.

In an instant, the pressure was
gone, and she almost felt adrift with the mystery man gone. Hannah whirled
around to confront the scoundrel who had accosted her, but there was no one
there.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Title: Dare to Love a Spy

Author: Debra Elizabeth

Genre: Regency Romance

Blurb:

Miss Hannah Richardson is enjoying a Season in London. She's
not looking for a husband, at least not this Season. She wants to enjoy herself
before settling down to married life. All that changes, however, when she sees
the Duke of Wetherby. He's tall, dark and impossibly handsome and someone
Hannah wants to get to know better.

Camden Darkin, the Duke of Wetherby, is not fond of
attending soirees, dinners or balls, but his latest mission for the Crown
demands he mingle with the ton. He
has vowed never to marry because of his dangerous work and the constant bevy of
beauties anxious mothers throw into his path is not tempting him in the least.
That is, until he meets Hannah Richardson, a young woman unlike any other he's
ever met. Can he learn to love or will his hardened heart rob him of the very
thing he needs the most.

"I
loved the murder-mystery flair that seemed present and the deliciously tense
undertone of the spy network. These points gave lots of flavor to the budding
romance and caused lots of conflict well so we ended up with a really meaty
story""A very well-written book, I highly
recommend it for those who love a witty, fast-paced Regency romance."

Author
bio:

Debra Elizabeth is the romance pen name for fantasy author
Debra L. Martin. She has been writing stories since her teens and decided to
finally publish her romance stories under a pen name so as not to confuse her
fantasy fans. She publishes epic and urban fantasy under her true name with her
co-author and brother, David W. Small. A full list of all of her books can be
found at her blog, Two Ends of the Pen.

Tuesday, December 27, 2016

The problem with being
immortal is that you can’t vacation in the same place very often. Usually, a
couple of weeks every decade was all Valentine allowed himself. More than that,
and people started asking too many questions. Moonlight Cove. His research told
him this location was ideal for his needs. A coastal city with a Mediterranean
climate, extended dry summers and short wet winters. The structures, though
old, were well maintained. Best of all, Moonlight Cove has a transient tourist
population.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~

BLURB:

Mr.
Valentine Comes to Town by A.G. Reid:A
mysterious vacationer—and supernatural entity—Mr. Valentine is matchmaking
despite strict instructions from the goddess Venus to leave the people of
Moonlight Cove alone.

Maggie’s Mystery Man by Barb DeLong:
Who is the reclusive visitor that has rented the entire Bed and Breakfast in
the historic Moonlight Cove Lighthouse and who only appears in public in a bad
disguise complete with a ridiculous fake wig? Maggie might find the big story
that will save her small town paper. Or she might find much more.

Once Upon a Love Letter by Jill
Jaynes:Chloe Reiser sees dead people,
and now that she’s back in Moonlight Cove to make a fresh start, she’s done
keeping it a secret. But how is she going to tell her more-skeptical-than-ever
high school crush that his dead father has an important message for him?

Surprise Deliveries by Shauna
Roberts:Serious, sensible Mr. Hamasaki
left for a trip and never came back. His daughter and an artist must team up to
find him.

Second Time Around by Janna
Roznos:A woman with her business on the
brink may find more than she bargained for in the old Victorian house left to
her by her dead sister.

Lily’s Pad by Kathleen Rowland:Lily Holmes knows enough tricks to attract
celebrities to her beachside bistro, Lily’s Pad. She knows the rules but breaks
one when she falls in love with her valued client, reality T.V. star Scarlett
Royale’s man, Creed Taylor.

Jill Jaynes began her love affair with romance when
she was a teenager growing up in Southern California, spending many a
late-night under the covers with a flashlight and good romance novel.Today she writes stories with happy endings
her own way--with a dash of magic that means anything can happen. When she’s
not writing, you can find her wine-tasting or hiking with her awesome husband,
plotting her next story with her writer-daughter or working at her day job in
her spare time.

Shauna Roberts writes historical fiction, science
fiction, romance, and fantasy and is a graduate of the Clarion Science Fiction
and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop. Her publications include more than a thousand
nonfiction articles, three nonfiction books, several short stories, two
novelettes, and three novels (Like Mayflies in a Stream, historical fiction,
2009; Claimed by the Enemy, historical fiction with romantic elements, 2014;
and Ice Magic, Fire Magic, fantasy with romantic elements, 2015).

A.G. Reid developed a love for romance novels
while serving in the military. It helped keep him grounded. He now writes
romantic stories with a paranormal twist. Enjoy his short story Mr. Valentine
Comes to Town in the romance anthology, Secrets Of Moonlight Cove.

Barb DeLong loves all things romance, animals and
light-hearted, so she combines the three into her contemporary and paranormal
stories. She has published a short story in Romancing the Pages anthology,
Secrets of Moonlight Cove anthology, and is currently working on another short
story plus a three-book paranormal romance series.

Janna Roznos writes about the middle-ages:
middle-aged women that is! Second chances, life changes and starting over are
themes she continues to explore in her writing. Her short story, Second Time
Around for Secrets of Moonlight Cove is her first published work.

Kathleen Rowland is devoted to giving her readers
fast-paced, high-stakes suspense with a sizzling love story sure to melt their
hearts.Some are sweet: Lily’s Pad
within the Secrets of Moonlight Cove anthology, but a sizzling hot example is
Deadly Alliance from Tirgearr Publishing.

Monday, December 26, 2016

Eighteen-year-old
Emily Stanton is excited to attend this season's society balls and begin her search
for a husband. She is thrilled when the dashing and handsome Connor Preston
begins to show her more attention. After each ball, Emily finds a love note in
her drawstring reticule, and she expects a marriage proposal from Connor any
day.

When her father objects and forces Emily to accept the proposal from Lady
Tisbury's shy nephew, Ethan Richardson instead, her heart is broken. How can
she love her new husband when her heart belongs to the man who wrote her such
beautiful love letters?

"As a fan of the incredible Jane Austen ... this
novella was a real treat for me to read. The author does a wonderful job
with descriptions, such as when she describes Emily's first ball as a
kaleidoscope of colors as the couples dance the night away."

"Love by Secrets is a sweet, bite-size love
story. ... I really liked the time period the book was set in. It reminded
me of Pride & Prejudice in that regard."

"The story was captivating, truly
well-written.....Overall, Love by Secrets was an enjoyable, quick read. The
author did a good job in conveying all the right elements of a sweet historical
romance and I look forward to continuing the series, as well as read her other
works. I recommend giving this one a try.

The Clio Award was like the Academy Award for advertising.
It was awarded for creative excellence in all forms of communication.

Autumn rushed into her office breathless. Stuart looked up
from his computer monitor.

“Who died and left you a bundle?”

“Money? Who cares about money? This is way better than
money, and definitely something money can’t buy.”

“Really?”

Autumn rolled her eyes. “Look, do you want to hear the great
news or not?”

“Sure, humor me.”

“We’re up for a Clio!”

Stuart stared gaped-mouth at Autumn as the words she had
just spoken filtered through his shocked brain. Suddenly, he jumped up and
grabbed her as they did an impromptu happy dance around the room. It took
approximately thirty seconds before they both stopped dancing and locked eyes
for several moments. Then their lips met. Though they broke apart quickly after
realizing what they’d done, Autumn still felt its sweetness flow through her,
her heart wanting more—much, much more.

BLURB:

When Autumn Stiles
lands the advertising job of her dreams, she feels it's the happiest day of her
life. She doesn't count on the tall, handsome, dreamy-eyed Stuart Tanner doing
his best to get her to quit.

When Tanner learns that he has
a new socialite employee at the advertising agency where he works, he is
determined to get rid of her. She is obviously just trying out for a
hard-working job that she thinks is glamorous.

But soon the heat sizzles
between them and he determines he will never give in to his desires.

Whether she’s writing a short story or
novel, Candy Caine will make her interracial romances hot and spicy. Always
striving to entertain her readers, Candy tries to breathe life into her
characters by running them past her husband, Robert--which often makes life
interesting in their new home in Arizona.

Saturday, December 24, 2016

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the houseNot a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;

The children were nestled all snug in their beds,While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads;And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap,Had just settled down for a long winter's nap,

When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.Away to the window I flew like a flash,Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.

The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snowGave the lustre of mid-day to objects below,When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer,

With a little old driver, so lively and quick,I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick.More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name;

"Now, DASHER! now, DANCER! now, PRANCER and VIXEN!On, COMET! on CUPID! on, DONDER and BLITZEN!To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!"

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky,So up to the house-top the coursers they flew,With the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.

And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roofThe prancing and pawing of each little hoof.As I drew in my hand, and was turning around,Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound.

He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot;A bundle of toys he had flung on his back,And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack.

His eyes -- how they twinkled! his dimples how merry!His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow;

The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath;He had a broad face and a little round belly,That shook, when he laughed like a bowlful of jelly.

He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself;A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread;

He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,And filled all the stockings; then turned with a jerk,And laying his finger aside of his nose,And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose;

He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight,"HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL, AND TO ALL A GOOD-NIGHT!"

Friday, December 23, 2016

3 clean and sweet Christmas stories that will make you
believe in love.

Christmas Wedding Wishes
After being left at the altar, Callie Spencer needed a fresh start. She
accepted a position as the Children's Librarian in a small Vermont town. Single
dad Tom Sullivan was too busy raising his 4-year-old daughter to look for love,
but all that changed when he meets Callie. Can these two fragile souls find
love and heal their broken hearts?

Second Chance Christmas
Megan Duffy needed to get away after a broken engagement and a few days at her
family's cabin could be just what she needed. She was looking forward to the
peace and quiet, that is, until she meets hunky store owner Ryker McCabe. Can
Ryker put the light back in her eyes and heal her broken heart?

Mistletoe Kisses
Petite Ellie Davison had the worst luck when it came to dating. Not wanting to
endure any more bad first dates, she swore off dating, that is, until she met
the impossibly handsome Jared at her friend's wedding.

Corporate lawyer Jared Castian was not pleased when his Washington firm
transferred him to Boston to oversee a complicated merger. He was on the
fast-track to making partner and had no time to date. When a chance meeting at
his friend's wedding paired him with bridesmaid Ellie Davison, he found himself
captivated by the pretty brunette. Was Ellie the one that would open his heart
to love?

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